Bondfield described the opening scene, set in a dreary, comfortless women's dormitory over a shop, as very like the real thing.
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According to the visiting Frederick Tuckett, " nowhere, perhaps, do twenty Englishmen reside on a spot so comfortless as this naked inaccessible isle ".
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They provide " a nightmare glimpse into the minds of people who have survived traumatic, even monstrous events and who are now being exposed to a comfortless future ."
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Nevertheless, it can be argued that this second movement with its sparse texture and comfortless melodies, evokes a Russian feel by bringing to mind the vast, barren and desolate landscape of the Siberian tundra.
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:: : : : I should add that the source uses language to describe the town such as " " the filthy streets, comfortless houses, and wild-looking population proclaim the Albanian town " ".
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The anonymous reviewer in " The Times " dismissed the libretto as " cold, dull and comfortless ", but praised some of the music as " evinc [ ing ] no inconsiderable share of taste and skill ".
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Whether the scene is a cantina where people salsa and drink away a winter night, a comfortless shelter full of survivors horrified beyond consolation, or an oil boomtown flush with money and prostitutes, Restrepo endows it with a vivid immediacy.
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Motion describes the Coleman poems as " a world of comfortless jealousies, breathless bike-rides and deathless crushes ", mixing elements from writers and poets such as Angela Brazil, Richmal Crompton, John Betjeman and W . H . Auden.
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The high mortality rate and comfortless lives of hard work on the island soon made it nigh impossible to get volunteers for the colony, and the company started using convicted prisoners, lured with the promise of freedom, to a high degree.
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Conceived and directed by Jonathan Eaton of the University of Cincinnati's College-Conserv-atory of Music, the production is close to brilliant : brooding, violent, comfortless and not at all to the taste of Spoleto's we're-here-to-play audiences.
